So...
It's here.
What a glorious piece of workmanship.
I stopped in to pay the FFL transfer fee, grab my gun, and dash. But the guys at the gun shop were having none of that! The owner and sales guys were huddled around it, ogling it and asking all sorts of questions. I finally got the guy to put it back in the carton, but if they hadn't been closing soon I probably wouldn't have gotten out of there before midnight. I'll be wiping it down shortly here and trying to get all the little bits of styrofoam out of the checkering on the wood. Pictures coming soon, boys.
I'd like to pilfer a line from Jeremiah Johnson, if I may?
Bear Claw Chris Lapp: "Were it worth the trouble?"
Jeremiah Johnson " Eh? What trouble?"
Yep.